Wayne Dale Collins

Wayne Dale Collins is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. His work focuses on antitrust law, merger review, competition policy, and complex transactional antitrust matters.

Collins previously served as a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he taught courses on antitrust law and competition policy.

Before entering academia, Collins spent more than four decades at Shearman & Sterling LLP. He served as a partner at the firm for most of his career and later as of counsel. His practice focused on antitrust counseling, merger review, and litigation, and he represented companies in numerous high-profile transactions and investigations in the United States and abroad. He also represented clients in antitrust litigation in U.S. courts and in investigations before the European Commission and other international competition authorities.

Earlier in his career, Collins served as special assistant and later deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice under Assistant U.S. Attorney General William F. Baxter. Before that, he served as special assistant to Vice President George H.W. Bush as part of the White House Fellows program.

Collins has played an active role in the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law, serving for many years as a committee chair, council member, and officer. He also chaired the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the New York City Bar. In addition, he conceived and served as editor-in-chief of “Issues in Competition Law and Policy,” a three-volume treatise examining major issues in modern competition law in the United States and internationally.

He is a life member of the American Law Institute and a member of the American Bar Association, the American Economic Association, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Collins earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago. He holds a master’s and a bachelor’s from the California Institute of Technology. He also studied mathematical economics and industrial organization as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota.